ArticleTobacco control2016
Interviews with smokers about smokeless tobacco products, risk messages and news articles.
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- The Impact of Smokeless Tobacco Risk Information on Smokers' Risk Perceptions and Use Intentions: A News Media Experiment.Health communication · 2019Trial
- Examining Perceptions of Uncertain Language in Potential E-Cigarette Warning Labels: Results from 16 Focus Groups with Adult Tobacco Users and Youth.Health communication · 2024Article
- Perceived Truthfulness of Reduced Lung Cancer Risk Advertising Claims Influences Consumers' Intention to try and to Purchase Snus.Tobacco use insights · 2023Article
- '95% less harmful'? Exploring reactions to quantitative modified risk claims for snus and e-cigarettes.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Smokers' Exposure to Perceived Modified Risk Claims for E-Cigarettes, Snus, and Smokeless Tobacco in the United States.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Harm Perceptions and Beliefs about Potential Modified Risk Tobacco Products.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Cigarette smokers' concurrent use of smokeless tobacco: dual use patterns and nicotine exposure.Tobacco control · 2021Article
- A qualitative study to assess perceptions, barriers, and motivators supporting smokeless tobacco cessation in the US fire service.PloS one · 2021Article
- Smokers' and Young Adult Non-Smokers' Perceptions and Perceived Impact of Snus and E-Cigarette Modified Risk Messages.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Adult perceptions of the relative harm of tobacco products and subsequent tobacco product use: Longitudinal findings from waves 1 and 2 of the population assessment of tobacco and health (PATH) study.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Smokers' perceptions of risks and harm from snus relative to cigarettes: A latent profile analysis study.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Relative Risk Perceptions between Snus and Cigarettes in a Snus-Prevalent Society-An Observational Study over a 16 Year Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Observational
- Perceptions of Alternative Tobacco Products, Anti-tobacco Media, and Tobacco Regulation among Young Adults: A Qualitative Study.American journal of health behavior · 2018Article
- Origins in the USA in the 1980s of the warning that smokeless tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarettes: a historical, documents-based assessment with implications for comparative warnings on less harmful tobacco/nicotine products.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- Monitoring harm perceptions of smokeless tobacco products among U.S. adults: Health Information National Trends Survey 2012, 2014, 2015.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- "Knowledge, recommendation, and beliefs of e-cigarettes among physicians involved in tobacco cessation: A qualitative study".Preventive medicine reports · 2017Article
- Perceptions of harm and addiction of snus: An exploratory study.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2016Article
- Perceived Relative Harm of Selected Cigarettes and Non-Cigarette Tobacco Products-A Study of Young People from a Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Rural Area in Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundSmokeless tobacco (SLT) products and their communication have been topics of discussion in harm reduction debates, but little is known about smokers' perceptions of existing SLT risk messages. This study aimed to explore smokers' perceptions of SLT and snus products and news stories with different risk messages about them.
methodsWe conducted interviews with 30 smokers assigned to read 1 of 3 constructed news stories about SLT and snus with different messages about their risks relative to cigarettes: (1) a 'favourable' version (describing SLT/snus as a 'safer' smoking alternative); (2) a 'cautious' version (describing SLT/snus as having various risks); and (3) a 'mixed' version (both stating SLT risks and potential reduced-risk benefits).
resultsSmokers felt somewhat more informed about snus after article reading and largely found quoted sources to be credible. Though some exposed to favourable SLT/snus messages appeared to modify their beliefs about the products' acceptability and risks, many were left unchanged given pre-existing SLT risk perceptions influenced by prior SLT warnings, observed effects in known users, and concerns about SLT's mode of use. Willingness to use/not use snus in the future was also influenced by non-risk-related factors (eg, preference for smoking rituals). Many referenced e-cigarettes as being safer and more attractive smoking alternatives.
conclusionsExposure to reduced-risk SLT information may have some impact on smokers' SLT perceptions and interest, but this might be limited by a variety of negative SLT beliefs and growth of other smoking alternatives. Future research should explore SLT risk message effects with larger samples and different study designs.
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